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Monday, June 21, 2010
Larry Brown says Calipari prepares people to play on the next level as well as any college coach he's ever known
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Wheatgerm
said...
The next time someone feeds you the old line about how "Calipari doesn't teach them anything, they would have been top players whatever college they went to, Cal just babysits them for a year and takes the credit,"
Calipari was an assistant to Larry at Kansas and with the 76ers. So Larry knows the guy pretty well. He can speak with first-hand knowledge.
People won't remember, but Larry was an ABA All-star, then one of those player-coaches in the ABA. One of the carousel of UCLA coaches after Wooden retired, and took them to the championship game. Left a good thing there. But won it all with Kansas in 1988. Coached numerous NBA teams, but I still associate him with the '76ers.
So yeah, few can speak with more authority than Larry Brown.
Check out how Larry disses Roy Williams in this article: "You look at Wall - if he had gone to Carolina, he'd still be the first pick in the draft - but John taught him how to play within a system without taking any of his ability away."
Ouch. That's coming from a former North Carolina player. Larry didn't have to go that far to praise Calipari. (But he did.)
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The next time someone feeds you the old line about how "Calipari doesn't teach them anything, they would have been top players whatever college they went to, Cal just babysits them for a year and takes the credit,"
ask if they know more than Larry Brown.
Didn't Coach Cal work as an assistant to Brown. and are they not good friends today?
yes and yes.
what else, vibrator.
Calipari was an assistant to Larry at Kansas and with the 76ers. So Larry knows the guy pretty well. He can speak with first-hand knowledge.
People won't remember, but Larry was an ABA All-star, then one of those player-coaches in the ABA. One of the carousel of UCLA coaches after Wooden retired, and took them to the championship game. Left a good thing there. But won it all with Kansas in 1988. Coached numerous NBA teams, but I still associate him with the '76ers.
So yeah, few can speak with more authority than Larry Brown.
Check out how Larry disses Roy Williams in this article: "You look at Wall - if he had gone to Carolina, he'd still be the first pick in the draft - but John taught him how to play within a system without taking any of his ability away."
Ouch. That's coming from a former North Carolina player. Larry didn't have to go that far to praise Calipari. (But he did.)
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